Vibration Control of Vehicle Suspension Systems

This book covers complex issues for a vehicle suspension model including non-linearities and uncertainties in a suspension model, network-induced time delays, and sampled-data model from a theoretical point of view. It includes control design methods as neural network supervisory, sliding mode variable structure, and optimal control, internal-model principle, feedback linearization control, input-to-state stabilization, and so forth. Every control method is applied to simulation for comparison and verification. Features: Includes theoretical derivation, proof, and simulation verification combined with suspension models Provides the vibration control strategies for sampled-data suspension models Focuses on the suspensions with time-delays instead of delay-free Covers all the models related to quarter, half, and full-vehicle suspensions Details rigorous mathematical derivation process for each theorem supported by MATLAB® based simulation This book is aimed at researchers and graduate students in automotive engineering, vehicle vibration, mechatronics, control systems, applied mechanics, and vehicle dynamics.